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Measuring Professional Competence for the Teaching of Mathematical Modelling …
This open access book presents a structural model and an associated test instrument designed to provide a detailed analysis of professional competences for teaching mathematical modelling. The conceptualisation is based on the COACTIV model, which describes aspects, areas and facets of professional competences of teachers. The manual provides an overview of the essential teaching skills in appl…
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- 9783030780715
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- viiii, 129 p. : ill.
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- 511.807 WES m
A global history of research education : disciplines, institutions, and natio…
This book’s chapters contain a mix of analysis and discussion looking in depth at the history of higher education. This text presents a global history of research education in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Chapters cover topics such as how disciplines are formed and research training, the rise of academic laboratory science, research mathematicians circa 1900 and research training i…
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- 9780192844774
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- IX, 387 p.
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- History of Universities
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- 378.009 GLO g
Adult education and work contexts : international perspectives and challenges…
Adult education has deep connections with employment contexts. This volume discusses interrelations within transnational contexts studied during the Würzburg Winter School on Comparative Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning (COMPALL). The book shows that adult education and work contexts are influenced by international and transnational developments. The findings are presented in t…
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- 9783631737033
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- 223 p. ; ill
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- 374 EGE a
Opportunities and challenges for new and peripheral political science communi…
This open access book offers an updated examination of the institutionalisation of political science in sixteen latecomer or peripheral countries in Europe. Its main theme is how political science as a science of democracy is influenced and how it responds to the challenges of the new millennium. The chapters, built upon a common theoretical framework of institutionalisation, are evidence-based…
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- 9783030790547
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- xiv, 288 p. ; ill
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- 320 ILO o
Democracy in a pandemic: participation in response to crisis
Covid-19 has highlighted limitations in our democratic politics – but also lessons for how to deepen our democracy and more effectively respond to future crises. In the face of an emergency, the working assumption all too often is that only a centralised, top-down response is possible. This book exposes the weakness of this assumption, making the case for deeper participation and deliberation…
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- 9781914386183
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- vii, 200 p. ; ill
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- 323.042 SMI d
Handbook of easy languages in Europe
The Handbook of Easy Languages in Europe describes what Easy Language is and how it is used in European countries. It demonstrates the great diversity of actors, instruments and outcomes related to Easy Language throughout Europe. All people, despite their limitations, have an equal right to information, inclusion, and social participation. This results in requirements for understandable langua…
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- 9783732991952
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- 623 p.
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- 400 LIN h
The englishization of higher education in Europe
The introduction of English as a medium of instruction (EMI) has changed higher education enormously in many European countries. This development is increasingly encapsulated under the term Englishization, that is, the increasing dispersion of English as a means of communication in non-Anglophone contexts. Englishization is not undisputed: legal challenges have arisen in several countries. Nor …
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- 9789048553914
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- 375 p. : bnw, ill.
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- 378.198094 WIL t
Critical Thinking in Higher Education and Labour Market
This book presents the comprehensive investigation of critical thinking in higher education from the perspectives of the study and labor market. It looks for an answer to the vibrant question of what and to whom critical thinking is. The study brings together findings from systematic literature review, analysis of descriptions of higher education study programs and study subjects, phenomenograp…
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- Vol. 86
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- 9783631861479
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- 524 p.
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- Erziehungskonzeptionen und Praxis, 86
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- 153.4 IND c
Accessible communication : a cross-country journey
Easy-to-Understand (E2U) text practices enable and facilitate accessible communication. E2U refers both to Plain and to Easy Language. These two powerful methods of language and content comprehension enhancement are illustrated through several examples in English, starting from the seminal role of the Anglophone world in promoting plain and lucid style. Originally implemented in written texts, …
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- 9783732991563
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- 177 p. : color, ill.
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- 410 PER a
Multimodal Texts in Disciplinary Education : A Comprehensive Framework
This open access book provides an introduction to multimodality and the role of multimodal texts in today’s education. Presenting a comprehensive framework for analysing and working with multimodal texts in disciplinary education, it serves as a tool for researchers and teachers alike. The second part of the book focuses on sample analyses of a variety of educational texts for different age g…
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- 9783030639600
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- xiv, 132 p. : ill.
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- 371.3 DAN m
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